From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC! PATCH] pull: refuse complete src:dst fetchspec arguments
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:37:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910202037.09140.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d561e70f0aa802ceb96eba16d3bb2316134d69c8.1256062808.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast wrote:
> git-pull has historically accepted full fetchspecs, meaning that you
> could do
>
> git pull $repo A:B
>
> which would simultaneously fetch the remote branch A into the local
> branch B and merge B into HEAD. This got especially confusing if B
> was checked out. New users variously mistook pull for fetch or read
> that command as "merge the remote A into my B", neither of which is
> correct.
>
> Since the above usage should be very rare and can be done with
> separate calls to fetch and merge, we just disallow full fetchspecs in
> git-pull.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Argh. This was actually supposed to be an *RFC* patch.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-20 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-20 18:23 [PATCH] pull: refuse complete src:dst fetchspec arguments Thomas Rast
2009-10-20 18:37 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2009-10-20 19:29 ` Wesley J. Landaker
2009-10-20 20:30 ` Sean Estabrooks
2009-10-20 21:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-21 0:15 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-21 0:29 ` Sean Estabrooks
2009-10-21 0:55 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-21 1:35 ` Sean Estabrooks
2009-10-21 3:15 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-21 4:32 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-21 8:05 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-23 2:54 ` Jeff King
2009-10-23 3:43 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-24 0:49 ` Jeff King
2009-10-24 1:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-21 8:06 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-15 12:24 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-15 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-29 11:05 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-12-29 16:58 ` Junio C Hamano
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